Associate Consultant – Supply Chain Transformation – Pune

The Consulting business at KPMG Global Services (KGS) is a diverse team of more than 6400 professionals. We provide consulting services to KPMG Firms worldwide to support the business transformation journeys of clients across industries. Our colleagues help clients explore potential obstacles to change and collaborate on critical decisions that can deliver real value to their businesses.

Through your work, you’ll build a global network and unlock opportunities that you may not have thought possible with access to great support, vast resources, and an inclusive, supportive environment to help you reach your full potential.

As a firm, we are deeply committed to diversity, inclusion and equity at our workplace. We offer a safe and inclusive environment built on trust, where all our colleagues can bring their authentic selves to work and know that their uniqueness is valued. 

We prohibit unfair treatment of applicants and employees and discrimination on any ground, including but not limited to, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, medical condition, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, nationality, cultural origin, family or parental status, defense veterans, physical, mental or sensory disability or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable Indian laws and regulations.

Roles & responsibilities

•The role requires the candidate to have a prior experience in at least two out of four:

•Supply Chain Strategy (Operation Model Development)

•Supply Chain Analytics (Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, R, Python)

•Supply Chain Planning (Demand and Supply planning)

•Optimization (Network, Inventory and Warehouse optimization)

•Work as an independent contributor to drive supply chain optimization and implementation projects for our clients.

•Coordinate with onsite engagements teams and clients to gather requirements, develop work plan, determine expectations, and finalize deliverables.

•Collaborate with other service networks to solicit services  required for success of the client engagement.

•Contribute to supply chain capability business development and pre-sales activities.

•Should have exceptional data crunching skills with ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data quickly and draw meaningful insights.

•Should have excellent communication skills and prior experience of interacting independently with global stakeholders.

•Help foster trusting relationships with business partners.
         
 

This role is for you if you have  the below

Educational qualifications

•Minimum qualification required: MBA / Post Graduate / Masters in Supply Chain / Operations Management is mandatory

•Any professional certifications required: Global Supply Chain certifications like CSCP / CPIM / MITx etc.

Work experience

•Relevant number of years of work experience required: 1-9 years

•The candidate must have experience particularly in a professional services firm / consulting / Big 4

•Prior consulting background, global consulting experience – e.g., North American Region (NAMER), EMEA region.

Mandatory  technical & functional skills

•Strong functional background including but not limited to inventory management, demand planning, production planning and scheduling, logistics optimization and IT in supply chain.

•Proficiency in MS Office suite (especially Excel, PowerPoint and Teams) with ability to perform analysis from large data sets using ETL tools like Alteryx.

•Experience in visualization and dashboards using Power BI / Tableau.

Preferred  technical & functional skills

•Prior experience in Network Optimization tools such as Supply Chain Guru (Llamasoft), AIMMS, iLog etc. is preferred.

•Exposure in Data Science, AI, ML tools like R / Python.

Key behavioural attributes/requirements

•Highly articulate with excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

•Drive and commitment to deliver high quality service to the KPMG network.

•Positive work ethic to deliver results within tight deadlines and in demanding situations.

•Ability to build and maintain relationships within team and interact credibly with stakeholders.

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